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(April 2017)

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LL
London Lite Founding member
Catsdown is also late night filler on More4.
DC
DCI02
The more I watch "Catsdown" the more I wonder how they can continue with the original. Rachel must be dying inside knowing she could be having a much better time.

On an unrelated note, I didn't realise until now just how long the theme tune and clock music have been used for! Wouldn't have thought the current music dated back to the mid 90s.


I don't understand why Cats is still doing Countdown. As a one off it worked but why is it still going? Isn't it just an excuse to be a cruder version of Countdown?


Quite simple ratings for 8 out of 10 cats does countdown is bigger than 8 out of 10 cats. On BARB Catsdown is getting between 1.5 to 3 million on Friday nights and even getting 1.3 million when the series was moved to Saturday nights last year sometimes overlapping with X Factor and the show is constantly in Channel 4 top 5 programmes when broadcast. The last series of normal 8 out of 10 cats which was broadcast on Channel 4 in late 2014 before the move to More4 was just scraping into Channel 4 30 most watched programmes for that particular week averaging less than 1 million and constantly getting beaten by the Simpsons.

According to SRO Audiences, regular 8 Out of 10 Cats will be moving to E4 from the next series. Which is a good idea, it should've never been moved to More4 in the first place.
London Lite, Rex and Larry the Loafer gave kudos
RE
Rex

I don't understand why Cats is still doing Countdown. As a one off it worked but why is it still going? Isn't it just an excuse to be a cruder version of Countdown?


Quite simple ratings for 8 out of 10 cats does countdown is bigger than 8 out of 10 cats. On BARB Catsdown is getting between 1.5 to 3 million on Friday nights and even getting 1.3 million when the series was moved to Saturday nights last year sometimes overlapping with X Factor and the show is constantly in Channel 4 top 5 programmes when broadcast. The last series of normal 8 out of 10 cats which was broadcast on Channel 4 in late 2014 before the move to More4 was just scraping into Channel 4 30 most watched programmes for that particular week averaging less than 1 million and constantly getting beaten by the Simpsons.

According to SRO Audiences, regular 8 Out of 10 Cats will be moving to E4 from the next series. Which is a good idea, it should've never been moved to More4 in the first place.

That's good news. I can only say that it fits much better on E4 - based on demographic (4Music regularly shows it as well), and the fact that it should have relatively reasonable ratings on said channel.

Imagine ITV moving the Nightly Show to ITV3 though...

58 days later

BR
Brekkie
New set to debut shortly on 8 out of 10 Cats Election special.
AG
AxG
Not a fan of the front of the desk and the marble effect
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BR
Brekkie
No, it's a bit bland. The bit above the letters board annoys me too - would be better blue to blend in with the background more.
AG
AxG
Would make a great US local news set!
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BR
Brekkie
Seems to have been filmed very recently - post covfefee. Election day rules though meaning it can't be topical at all.
LS
Lou Scannon
covfefee.


Eh? Confused

EDIT: Okay, I've now looked-up what that's all about. My previous unawareness being due to the special microchip in my brain that automatically blocks out all things Trump.
Last edited by Lou Scannon on 8 June 2017 10:00pm
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A former member
covfefee.


Eh? Confused


Its a trump thing..
JK
JK08
covfefee.


Eh? Confused

Exactly
JB
JexedBack
AxG posted:
Not a fan of the front of the desk and the marble effect
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No, it's a bit bland. The bit above the letters board annoys me too - would be better blue to blend in with the background more.


Looks like they've got the numbers board on the back of the letters side so it can be rotated. Was previously lifted in and out of position several times during the recording.

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